(If Robs Fords so much as glanced at a Knog Blinder his heart would explode like a jelly donut with an etc. etc. you get the point.)

I will not be administering a quiz on this blog today.

Instead, I will be doing the quiz LIVE! at the Bike Expo tomorrow, which will accomplish two things:

1) I can give away prizes to people who get the right answers;

and

B) It will allow me to pad the hour since otherwise I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to offer.

So take this extra day to study up, and as for the rest of you who are not lucky enough to be in Philadelphia tomorrow (or who are lucky enough not to be in Philadelphia tomorrow as the case may be), well, tough noogies for you.

It's worth noting that the local news is nearly as stupid as the person who made the sign, since the conclusion of the piece seems to be that cyclists and drivers need to respect each other, and not that the person who who did this is a stupid fucking idiot with a serious mental problem who could be a threat to public safety and should probably be sought out and given treatment.

Really, it's a cry for help--though of course if the person had come right out and asked for help I'm sure they would have spelled it "halp."

Anyway, that's it from me, see some of you tomorrow, see the rest of you on Monday, and may you bicyclest to the fullest this weekend.

Wildcat:Since you refuse to come to the middle of the country anymore (Cleveland doesn't count), please send a box of Snob Swag to me and I'll dole it out to Crosspalms, Flyover Guy, et al.Thank you, and enjoy your trip.

That Robs Fords does some crazy shit while on his infamous drunken-and-or-coked-up binges. Who knows, maybe he does drive down south of the border, and write psychotic signs extolling the virtues of vehicular homicide? It's as likely an explanation as any other. Thank Lob that Canada doesn't have nukes.

If you're only two choices are running over the cyclist or getting in a head on collision, than your doing it wrong.(see what I did their)These people are confusing the words 'share the road' with 'get the fuck out of my way'.

Hey WRM, no fair! You give all the east coasters all of the cool shit, and the only thing I got during your last Portland BRA was an Ass Saver. Not that I'm ungrateful for the Ass Saver, as I'm really fond of it (my ass, that is).

I'd just love to have one of those BSNYC t-shirts to wear at the next Cross Crusade, to see what kind of reception I'd get from the people with the huge bike garage. Forgive and forget, I'm sure.

Where on earth did you find a picture hairy legged David Zabriske giving noogies to an anonymous red haired girl? Is that what the master of the DZ Nuts empire is doing with his retirement? I.e., growing his leg hairs out and giving noogies to anonymous red haired girls. I sure hope his roadie buddies don't find out that he has stopped shaving his legs and a doubly hope that Mrs. Zabriske, by whom I mean his wife (although I doubt his mother would approve either), doesn't find out that anonymous red haired girls are sniffing his armpits.

Indeed a cry for help. And the scary thing is all he has to do is walk down to his local wallmart and get an assault weapon and he can express himself in a more personal way. Thank you NRA and Wayne Lapierre for being brave enough to stand up and protect our god given and constitutional right to bear arms. There is a special place waiting for you in Hell and it goes a little like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRPz6-Tkww

I find I am uncharacteristically unable to get all pissed-off and worked-up and hell-fired at the "moran" with the sign. But if someone happened to stop by and perforate it with 4-5 shotgun blasts I would probably find that satisfying.

Yogisurf from San Diego (42K mile bicycling-biking commuter) says: That sign was posted on Honey Springs Rd, a favorite Fred ride in San Diego’s east county. The road is narrow with a very small shoulder but typically has very light traffic. I have seen cyclists riding 3 abreast around blind curves with sport motorcycles coming at them from behind at 70+MPH. These cyclists are asking for it; I believe there have been some accidents. The fool-with-the-sign needs to take Snobby’s advice and “USE THE F%$^ BRAKE PEDAL”. If the fool’s house burns down, no tears here.

Maybe they meant antecedent? Must be pretty freaky to run into yourself. So they've got the whole self preservation thing, combined with the constitutional right to not be delayed an extra 10 seconds of texting time at the next stop light and I totally get where they're coming from - thanks for the head's up East County Tourism Board.

In the one-horse town of Nicasio, in Fred-roaming territory north of San Francisco, there are two printed signs urging people to keep their voices down as they ride by so as not to upset the residents. Now I know Freds boasting and bloviating is tiresome to listen to, and they are not actively wishing harm on anyone, but are voices really more of a disturbance to the bucolic Sunday than the hundreds of Ducatis etc that use the Nicasio Roas as a test track?

DOOD, how long have you been riding bikes, that you don't know what a roadie is???

Roadies:-travel in packs of 20 plus, taking up the entire road, and ignoring all traffic laws.-wear obscene leotards-shave their legs-descend EN MASSE on some coffee shop, blowing up the restroom, making it so people who actually live there can't get a coffee and pastry in peace, AND ACT LIKE THE TOWNSFOLK SHOULD BE GRATEFUL that a bunch of middle aged tossers decided to invade their sleeply hamlet, BECAUSE THEY BOUGHT A FUCKING COFFEE. NEWFLASH: buying coffee does not make you well loved. PORTLAND

Ducatis are mellifluous, I'll take that over fred-boasting any day. Harleys are like paper - covers rock, disproves Spock. Or are Harley's the rock that crushes scissors & lizard? Can't sleep through Harleys.

ge--No, you can NOT sleep through a Harley. My neighbor bought one when she was going through some kind of mid-life crisis. I could care less except she revs that stupid thing up right under my bedroom window 30 minutes before my alarm is set to go off. She even put tassels on the end of the handlebars like a little girls bicycle. Ridiculous. Sensing my displeasure yet?

Dood I have been riding bikes for over 530 lunar CYCLES, and I have learned that many doods have different definitions of what a roadie is. For some doods it is anyone that rides somewhere besides dirt. Most importantly, I dood believe that buying coffee makes me well loved (at least more self loved)

Week in review:I have a pickemup truck sos no roof rack to smash my bikes.

I have a bell because it works 99% of the time Power of the Bike Bell and yelling "on your left" sounds angry & most people (peds OR bikes) don't have any idea what it means.

I don't like bibs because they ride up too high, are warmer, and the suspenders make me feel like I'm wearing a backpack when I'm not. However since Kenda gave us a pair this year to advertise their tires, I have found them useful for the cyclotrossing because the "riding up" becomes a positive feature: with all the dismounting and mounting they stay up better in order to not get caught on the nose of the saddle. Backbone Racing

ge - you are right that singling out Ducatis was not the best example. I am sure there are lots of other noise machines and flying sofas that blat through Nicasio on the weekend. I went to an open house on my block in the city one time, and they were touting the place as a quiet neighborhood, and I said, well yes, except for the Harley and Buell dealership down the hill... I especially love the ones with sound systems that the old dears try to blast over the unmuffled tailpipes.

Harley actually patented the single pin crank design which gives them the "loping" exhaust note. At the cost of a significant amount of power ironically. Honda tried to build a Shadow with it in the 80s and HD shut them down pretty quick.

These numbnuts who use the term liberal pejoratively don't know that the Constitution, the Bill of Rights is a product of liberal thought and ideology.Liberalism allows and protects the existence of Fox News and the Tea Party. If our Founding Fathers would've foreseen how irresponsibly the descendants of the peasantry would behave, they would've established a monarchy.

anonymous 8:46- Your use of the term "liberal" shows YOU don't understand what the Founding Fathers wanted, either. They wanted a very small government, NO standing military, only well trained, ARMED citizens. Please do some research, and you'll see the mass shooters are intelligent, liberal(your definition) mentally unstable people. NOT Tea Party, NOT NRA members, not the average Joe. Just because you blame conservatives for the USA's troubles, doesn't mean you're blaming the right people.

Ron Paul, small government in size? Please, for a country with limitless potential? YOU don't know the meaning of conservatism. The reach of government into the personal lives of the citizenry; its influence on a person's choices is the whole point of a SMALL government. And liberalism is what makes the concept of small goveremt possible. Get the paradox?

ANON 6:13 - you really think nobody with an NRA card wants to shoot someone? Nice generalization. And nice failure to pay any attention to what prominent fucktards like Ted Nugent (WANGO TANGO THIS) has said about wanting to shoot various liberals. Including saying President Obama should suck his machine gun? Don't bury your head in the sand. I know plenty of NRA members that are extremely responsible gun owners, who use guns to hunt and take safety to the extreme. And guess what, some of them vote D. But when NRA board members are making gun violence threats you can not say you don't know any NRA members who want to shoot people, unless you are burying your head somewhere.

Maybe the founding fathers were wrong. A good number of those good men were bending things in ways that met their personal gains. Robert Morris paid pennies on the dollar to war vets and then used his power to ensure the conservative government would pay him 100 cents on the dollar. And Good George Washington had his policies shaped by his massive land holdings in Western PA. So whatever the founding fathers may have wanted, its always all about the money. And not a one of them sat his scranus on a bicycle, so what could they possibly know about cream cheese, fred chariots, Malcum and Edgar?

Babble & Commie Canuck, First news reports about Rob Fords blow south of the NSA border. Now I'm hearing on the news that a "Massive Arctic Cold Front is going to "invade" the NSA from CANADA" Couldn't you please keep it for yourselves instead of exporting it? Good neighbors don't blow on their next door neighbors unless sex is involved.

Fucking hell, that NYTimes opinion piece. He correctly points out that drivers suffer no consequences for negligent driving. Yet for some reason he feels the need to conclude that somehow cyclists need to "earn" respect. If people pulled their heads out of their arses long enough they'd notice that motorists technically break traffic laws all the freaking time. Very few drivers come to a complete stop at stop signs, the majority don't do so in an unsafe way, but it's also not that uncommon to see drivers go through fast enough that they would have caused an accident if a pedestrian or car was in the wrong place. And don't get me started on lane discipline and speeding. People seem willing to give vast latitude to drivers breaking rules, yet expect cyclists to slavishly adhere to laws that were written based on the sight-lines and speeds of cars.

About Me

While I love cycling and embrace it in all its forms, I'm also extremely critical. So I present to you my venting for your amusement and betterment. No offense meant to the critiqued. Always keep riding!